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Riceman, Some important parameters concerning groundspeed are not mentioned in your posting. For instance field conditions and levy spacing if not precisioned leveled. Concerning field conditions, do you accomplish a good drain down of your field(s)IJ What is your soil type (heavy, light, or clay soils)IJ If you cut levies, do you cut across them or save them for lastIJ Some individuals eliminate their levies all together. Another critical variable that must be considered when evaluating ground speed is you particular yield. One hundred bushel per acre rice (standing) as oppose to one hundred eighty bushel per acre rice will require different operating conditions. Also consider what is the moisture content of your crop. The present economic situation mandates that we harvest as efficiently as possible. Yield monitors, buzzers, alarms, and whistles are all fine, but the individual in the seat is still the determining factor and the most significant. Bring that crop in to your satisfaction. When we as individuals operate that machine we become designer,developmental specialist, system expert, research and development, and modification engineer. You know how your machine works for you in your conditions. If you can push the machine a little harder and it meets your specifications then up the ante a little farther and see how it behaves. When it does not meet your demands determine why it does not and until then back it down a little brother. When we push the machine we also test ourselves.